High-performance electronics using dense, perfectly aligned arrays of single-walled carbon nanotubes

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 230-236

  Kang, Seong Jun ^a   Kocabas, Coskun ^a   Ozel, Taner ^a   Shim, Moonsub ^a   Pimparkar, Ninad ^c   Alam, Muhammad A ^c   Rotkin, Slava V ^d   Rogers, John A ^a,b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; NANOTUBES; TRANSISTORS; YARN;

CIRCUIT INTEGRATION; FLEXIBLE TRANSISTORS; INTER-DIGITATED ELECTRODES; N-CHANNEL TRANSISTORS; NANOTUBE ELECTRONICS; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE (SWNTS); THIN FILM SEMICONDUCTORS;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRODE; MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS; NANOARRAY; NANODEVICE; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICONDUCTOR;

EID: 34248360702     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2007.77     Document Type: Article

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